Retired-Course: Writing and Community

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this Capstone, students will work intensively to create written work individually and in collaboration with others. Students will investigate a variety of forms and sources of writing as mechanisms for both personal expression and social change, will generate new writing in weekly writing group sessions, will serve as writing partners/coaches with each other, and will work cooperatively in small groups to design and complete writing projects in collaboration with community partners.

Course Goals:

• Engage with our own creative impulses as writers as we develop individual writing projects of our individual choosing (communication, critical thinking, social responsibility)

• Explore the convergence of writing as a solitary act with the communal acts of reading aloud, offering feedback, and creating products for community partners to enhance our facility and confidence in listening and oral communication 

• Facilitate the building of healthy and functional relationships around both differences and likenesses experienced within the classroom community and with our community partners’ constituencies 

• Deepen students’ ongoing identification with and participation in a shared community, both on a small scale (as members of a classroom learning community) and with various communities in greater Portland

Project Description

Assignment - https://capstone.unst.pdx.edu/sites/default/files/2011-assignment-instructions-finalreflection.docx